See Working with Properties and the subsequent articles under that same "Scripting & Properties" section. SoapUI can do Groovy scripting, and I've been using that to get today's date into some fields that require a date. e.g....

IBM Rational Quality Manager: Test automation traceability - This video tutorial demonstrates how to associate an automation script with the test suite. That single automation script runs and creates results for the test cases associated with the...

IBM InterConnect 2017 is almost here. It’s not too late to join us March 19-23, 2017 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, NV. Through more than 2,000 targeted sessions led by industry leaders and IBM experts, InterConnect will help you reach your goals. Join us...

In today’s era, when technology plays a vital role in the development of a child’s future, a good pair of WIDA headphones is a must have. It allows your child to use a PC, laptop or even a tablet without any distraction. However, when it...

We are heads-down planning for another great DevOps experience at IBM InterConnect 2017 . Dive deeper into DevOps with technical topics, hand-on labs, interactive workshops and much more. This is your opportunity to advance your career, your...

IBM was named a leader in the recently published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation, based on completeness of vision and ability to execute. The report states that leaders: Have established strong market positions Provide products that are a...

Forrester researched, analyzed and scored numerous Functional Testing solutions and identified IBM as a leader, stating that IBM “outpaces the competition in the number of platforms on which teams can execute test automation.” The...

Introduction This tutorial outlines how to implement a simple mechanism within a decision service to allow real-time champion challenger or multi-variate testing within a live, production environment. This is based on an approach I have used in previous...

They say time flies when you are having fun. As a first time attendee of IBM InterConnect 2016, IBM's biggest Cloud event of the year, I had an awesome experience. I am part of the DevOps social marketing team and my role at the event was to provide...

Dear Rational Support Customers, I would like to make you aware of an important and exciting announcement around the partnership that IBM and HCL have entered into, with a special reference to the following Rational products: Rational Testing...

There are many tools to use for web performance testing, but if you want a good tool that does the job, I recommend Jmeter. The good and bad thing about JMeter is that there are alot of different options and features. To make it simpler for you, the good folks...

As a tester you are being asked to go as fast as you can but yet constantly waiting for everything to be ready to test? Maybe you are writing your own stubs – which can be brittle, fragile and broken all the time. Or...

When I was learning the nuances of Software quality assurance/ testing, a quote that was often spoken in the classroom was a successful test engineer should have the “Test to Break” attitude. Back then I used to wonder what is that the tester needs...

Developing and testing complex middleware based applications is a difficult job. How can you be sure you are truly realizing the value of your investment in the newly announced WebSphere Application Server 9.0 (WAS 9.0)? It is critical that...

Are you wondering what “continuous testing” really means for you and your teams, and more specifically, how to achieve continuous testing? Everyone knows that testing takes time and it is costly, but finding ways to reduce the effort is a...

We all depend on financial services organizations to have a secure and reliable exchange of data. Every development project needs to focus on a successful client experience while minimizing IT-related failures. Quality assurance, testing and IT risk...

The example detailed below is on a RHEL6.7, 3 node, virtual machine cluster, each node has only 1 core and 4GB of RAM plus about 80GB of local storage. Teragen, Terasort, Teravalidate Tests: The purpose of TeraSort is to sort an ammount of data as...

Today has been mostly a day of testing my newly build Intel VM Linux IBM BigInsights cluster. I've already hit one problem where it was underperformed due to a lack of memory, so I do rather miss having my own systems to build. Now there are a number of...

One of the things that has been extremely popular in software organizations for a long time is to count the number of defects that have been found via testing. I propose that teams no longer do this for two reasons. First, one of the lines...

Performance metrics available for WebSphere Commerce Need for Agile performance preview The solution architecture is done and the iterations are on their way churning out designs and code. In projects executed following agile methodologies, features are...

Learn the main guidelines to build an automated development and testing framework using scripts. In the following blog post, Aya Elgebeely (Application Developer, IBM) highlights how using scripts to automate your development workflow can have a magical effect...